Li Ling – Feb 11: As our time at Dotson quickly comes to an end, we've been spacing RAN missions with quite short intervals and deploying her as soon as…
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Li Ling – Feb 10: I wish there is a wildlife alarm on the ship! Today while I was sleeping, a few orcas showed up!!! Killer whales!!! Apparently really closed…
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Li Ling – Feb 10: Boaty McBoatface (the name of the Autosub Long-Range, the British AUV onboard) has caused some real ups and downs on the cruise recently! At midnight…
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Li Ling – Feb 7: How many trials are needed for a sensible ice draft map under western Dotson Ice Shelf? Turns out: at least three times. The first trial:…
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Li Ling – Feb 3: After the seal tagging attempt, the ship followed the eastern side of the Bear Peninsula along a channel packed with sea ice. We maneuvered as…
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Li Ling – Feb 2: The glider team tried to deploy a glider during the night, but unfortunately that did not work out, as the glider did not managed to…
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Li Ling – Feb 2: After RAN recovery, the ship headed east to the Bear Peninsula. When transiting down to the Amundsen Sea Polynya at the beginning of the cruise,…
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Li Ling – Feb 1: RAN got out in the afternoon for a 22h under-ice mission, with recovery time around lunch tomorrow. Fingers crossed for some under-ice multibeam data and…
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Li Ling – Jan 31: I stayed up until the RAN recovery time 11.30 this morning, since I was also a bit nervous for RAN... After all, it's the first…
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Li Ling – Jan 30-31: I stayed up to monitor the Hugin computers during the night between the 30th and 31st January. During the night, the THOR team was looking…
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